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...irst or senior wrangler, with every advantage that high training and broad culture and association with the wisest and the best of men and women can g... ...th had been spent in the forest or on the farm and the flat- boat, without culture or training, education or study, by the random reading, on the wing... ...prehended from it till, by the invention of the cotton gin in 1792, cotton culture by negro labor became at once and forever the leading industry of t... .... It was a great audience, including all the noted men—all the learned and cultured of his party in New Y ork editors, clergymen, statesmen, lawyers, ... ...pon every road- side, and in numbers almost sufficient to rival the native Spanish moss of the country as a drapery of the forest. Turn then to that h...

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... you know what’s amiss with the En- glish and the French, and your pitiful culture goes to make it worse, your shameful idleness, your abominable inac... ..., strangely light trunk was carried, he still talked; muffled in a kind of Spanish cloak with a collar, brown with age, and a clasp of two lion’s paws...

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...e are some very exact treatises on astronomy, the use of the globes, agri- culture, and the art of making paper flowers. Upon the less apparent provin... ...ly suited his deportment to the costume of the hour. He affected something Spanish in his air, and something of the bandit, with a flavour of Rembrand... ...ime, struck a few chords, and fell into an attitude which was irresistibly Spanish. “Now,” he continued, “feel your voice. Are you ready? Follow me!” ...

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... knows best; and the Dream, I say again, is the responsible party. 4. “The Spanish Nun.”* —There are some narratives, which, though pure fictions from... ... of the heroine, and from the unsettled state of society at that period in Spanish America, that a reader the most credulous would at times be startle... ...urous, not essentially differing from the monotonous character of ordinary Spanish life. Suppose the case, therefore, that Kate’s memoirs had been thr... ...gress of the dispute threw the decision at length upon the archives of the Spanish Marine. Those for the southern ports of Spain had been transferred,... ...g apart from the urban aristocracy, and standing on a dif- ferent level of culture as to intellect, of polish as to manners, and of interests as to so... ...n had thus become the great organ of human 58 Memorials, and Other Papers culture. Lady Carbery advanced half-way to meet me in these new views, find... ...n philologically profound scholars, which at that time, from the imperfect culture of philology, they could not eas- ily have been; men they were whom... ..., were deluged with gold and silver coins, moidores, and dollars, from the Spanish 76 Memorials, and Other Papers mint of Mexico, etc. These, during ... ...ublic, I had already made, and had made op- erative to my own intellectual culture in the same year when I clandestinely quitted school. Already, in 1...

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...natural principle, it always presupposes the existence of a high degree of culture and enlightenment in society.* At the first glance it may be imagin... ...re of the continent of America is very much lower than that of Europe. The Spanish Government formerly caused a certain num- ber of peasants from the ... ...s degree, amongst all democratic nations. Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sci- ences, or of the more elevated departments of sc... ...the midst of a democracy, not unprepared by ancient traditions and present culture to partake in the pleasures of the mind. Ranks are there inter- min... ... all received the same edu- cation; they do not possess the same degree of culture as their fathers, nor any resemblance to them – nay, they per- petu... ... such a people there are no men who are permanently disposed by education, culture, and leisure to study the natural laws of language, and who cause t...

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...vitality and significance to everything about him. A part of education and culture is the exten- sion of one’s narrow range of living to include wider... ...y parsonage house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixmarte of Hircania, in folio, which he read quite th... ... with that generous warmth which dictated the lines in his London, against Spanish encroachment. I expressed my opinion of my friend Derrick as but a ... ...emember that the Emperour Charles V, when he read upon the tomb-stone of a Spanish nobleman, “Here lies one who never knew fear,” wittily said, “Then ... ...to observe; his power of contrasting one mode of life with another. As the Spanish prov- erb says, “He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies,... ... 610 Boswell’s Life of Johnson languages, Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Arabick, and Armenian, he said, he thought it unnecessary...

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... to by Turks and Arabs. I have sojourned in the hotels of old Spain and of Spanish America. I have lived in Connaught, and have taken up my quarters w... ...haps in af- fection; but he cannot separate himself from England in mental culture. It may be suggested that an Englishman has the same advantages as ...

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...nt for Bedouins or Malays. The state of different communities, in point of culture and development, ranges downwards to a condition very little above ... ...ven of speculative, and much more of practical, talent. The intel lectual culture compatible with the other type is of that feeble and vague descript... ...c tions struggled for the chief place itself, they would certainly, as in Spanish America, keep the country in a state of chronic revolution and civi... ...ey, and does the most it can to protect the natives against them. Even the Spanish government did this, sin cerely and earnestly, though ineffectuall... ..., as is known to ev ery reader of Mr. Helps’ instructive history. Had the Spanish government been directly accountable to Spanish opinion, we may que... ...s fair to make up rapidly the ground they have lost. No one can doubt what Spanish in tellect and energy are capable of; and their faults as a people...

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...cattle in Great Britain. Even more astonishing are the achievements of the Culture Maraicheres round Paris. It is impossible to summarize these achiev... ...uare miles), it could be grown without resorting to any other meth- ods of culture than those already in use—methods already tested on a large scale a... ...ance of the recent change in American foreign policy as illustrated by the Spanish War, the Philippine an- nexation, the Panama policy, and the new ap... ...nd colleges. The Hindoo Nation- alist feels that his country has a type of culture containing elements of value that are absent, or much less marked, ...

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... of followers and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and spread his... ...onvert to Islam, and end the immorality and godlessness of its society and culture:“It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civ- ilization ... ...ls led most independence movements, and clerical influence and traditional culture were seen as obstacles to national progress. After gaining independ... ...d little if any attention to the rest of the world’s thought, history, and culture.The secular education reflected a strong cultural preference for te... ...nt press reports to the contrary, there is no convincing evidence that the Spanish al Qaeda cell, led by Imad Barkat Yarkas and al Qaeda European fina... ...sociate Mamoun Darkazanli—see, e.g., FBI letterhead memorandum,Y arkas and Spanish Cell investigation, Jan. 8, 2003—but there is no evidence that Zoua... ...ed evidence that anyone met with Atta or Binalshibh in Spain in July 2001, Spanish investigators contend that members of the Spanish al Qaeda cell wer... ... meet- ing and were connected to the 9/11 attacks. In an indictment of the Spanish cell members dated September 17, 2003, the Spanish government relie... ...deotaped a number of U.S. landmarks, including the W orld Trade Center.The Spanish indictment alleges that an al Qaeda courier was in Ghalyoun’s town ...

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...t, American; which was to be brave and cheerful as per con- tract; to give culture in a popular and poetical presentment; and, in so doing, catch and ... ...vils dance on all our literary wires. It would be a poor service to spread culture, if this be its result, among the comparatively innocent and cheerf... ...him whining. It is better that he should go without the cheerful lights of culture, if cheerless doubt and paralys- ing sentimentalism are to be the c... ... old sea-dog might have welcomed the sight of the enemy’s topsails off the Spanish Main. There, at least, he seems to say, is some- thing obvious to b... ...nd then exclaims, “How admirably the artist is made to accomplish his self-culture by devotion to his art!” We may escape uncongenial toil, only to de... ...nderful to the Japanese how far he contrived to push these explorations; a cultured gentleman of that land and period would leave a complimentary poem...